BSPWM, laptop has 1920x1080 resolution, external screen has 1680x1050. xrandr --output DP-1 1680x1050 cuts image, if I change resolution to 1920x1080, I get “full” image, but quality is just bad. I have another machine with XFCE, it’s display utility does the trick and I wonder can I achieve smth similar on BSPWM with some simple console command?

  • questionAsker@lemmy.mlOP
    2·
    1 year ago

    I also don’t mirror, just switch from laptop to external and vice versa. Strange because lighdtm doesn’t break anything for XFCE, quite interesting what is the reason

    maybe I’m just one of very few that have external resolution lower than host

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      maybe I’m just one of very few that have external resolution lower than host

      You aren’t.

      How do you have your displays set up? Your xrandr command didn’t seem complete. You say you aren’t mirroring; are you then using both the laptop and external monitor at the same time? If so, I’d expect a command more like:

      xrandr \
  --output eDP1 --auto \
  --output DP-1 --auto --right-of eDP1

      or if it’s really not auto-detecting⋮

      xrandr \
  --output eDP1 --mode 1920x1080 \
  --output DP-1 --mode 1680x1050 --right-of eDP1

      Can you post your full xrandr command? Also, arandr and grandr can be a little easier to fiddle with if you’re trying to arrange things.

    • ScottE@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ah, I thought you were displaying on both outputs, not switching between them, hence my mirroring comment. I suspect XFCE, not the DM, detects the output change and takes care of it. You might need to emulate that behavior with a hook of some type that you have to setup yourself with the tiling WM, and you might have to --off the unused display. I’d be willing to bet you can find some sort of hook script out there that can do this, I seem to recall an autorandr program I used in the past where you could set up output profiles. I hope that helps, maybe a little bit.